Posts Tagged With 'larp scenes'
5 writing tips I’ve learned…
…from designing female characters in a gender-segregated patriarchal Larp subculture
Most roles in historically-inspired Larps tend to be gender-segregated, involving patriarchal societies (which were mostly the norm, at least when European Christian societies – in the broader sense of term – are concerned). This makes the creation of female characters more challenging.
I am not talking here of larps actually focused on gender oppression. I am rather addressing social, historical...
Larp census 2014 – How many larpers in the world ?
We want to count every larper, including you!
It only takes 1 minute to answer the main questions.
http://larpcensus.org
How many larpers in the world ?
That is the question of Aaron Vanek and Ryan Paddy and they decided to answer it with your help.
Why a global larp census?
Although some countries have rough estimates of their larp population, there has not been a comprehensive global census taken of self-identifying larpers on this scale. We really want to count everyone who larps, has...
A calendar for international larps
A few weeks ago, we announced that a new calendar was available for larp conventions all over the world. We will try to add also the larps which welcome an international audience. Some of them are already in our calendar, and we will try to keep it up to date. If you listen to an international larp which is not in the calendar, please contact us and we will add it: contact@electro-larp.com
The calendar is still available...
A new calendar for larp conventions
There are a lot of larp conventions in the world, and maybe you want -like us- to go everywhere to speak about larp. So we created a calendar to list them, you can find it here.
We will try to update it regularly, but we don’t know every larp conventions in the world. So if you know an event where international people can meet together to share their knowledge about larps, and if you don’t find it in the calendar, please contact us and we will add it :...
Freestyle games
Original post : http://www.electro-gn.com/310-lesjeuxfreestyle
Translation : Leïla Teteau-Surel
We can think of dozens of ways to categorize larps : by the length, the number of players, the theme, the scenario-building, and so on. The kind of larp I’m gonna focus on is based on bringing more involvment from the players in the creative part of the story.
In a lot of games (we could take the risk to say : in more and more games 1), larp designers have a tendency to do their best to...
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